Adjustable bearing.



Patantad 0m. 30,1900;

J. WHITE. ADJUSTABLE BEARING.

(Application filed May 21, 1990.]

(No Model.)

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ilNiTED STATES PATENT @FFICE JOSEPH WHITE, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY.

ADJUSTABLE BEARING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 660,743. dated October 30, 1900.

Original application filed March 20, 1900, Eerial no. 9,374. Divided and this application filed May 21, i900. Serial Ne 17,347; (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH WHITE, a citizen of the United States, residing in Paterson, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Adjustable Bearings for Silk-Finishing Machines; and I do herebydeclare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to machines for finishing textile material, and especially silk goods; and it consists in an improved form of adjustable support for the series of superposed heated rollers employed in the finishing-machine described and claimed in my copending application for United States patent filed March 20, 1900, and bearing Serial No. 9,374.

Myinvention is fully illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein corresponding letters of reference indicate like parts, and wherein- Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of the upper portion of a finishing-machine, enough thereof being shown to clearly illustrate my invention; and Fig. 2 is an enlarged top plan view of one of the bearing-brackets constituting a part of my improved adjustable support, a portion of the frame to which said bracket is secured being shown in section.

In said drawings, a designates one of a pair of uprights constituting a part of the frame of the finishing-machine, while I) designates one of a pair of horizontal supports which project from said uprights, being secured thereto preferably by bolts 0 and being also partly sustained by braces (1. Each upright ais provided with a vertical slot 6. Through said slot is adapted to extend a threaded bolt 5 f,'having a nut g at its free end and projectis adapted to receive the flattened projection is of another block Z, said flattened projection approximately fitting the recess in the bifur' cated portion of the block h. The block Z is formed with a sleeve portion m, from which extends, at a point approximately diametrically opposite the projection 7c, another projection 02, having a threaded orifice 0. The projection 70 of each block l is provided with an aperture 10, which when said projection is inserted into the recess of the bifurcated portion of the block h is adapted to register with the aperturesj and to receive therewith a removable headed seeuring-pin q.

Brackets, each comprising a block 7t and a block Z, secured together by one of the pins q, are adapted to be secured in pairs one above the other in the uprights a. The sleeve portions of the blocksl of each of these pairs of brackets afford bearings forthe tubular trunnions r of hollow rollers s, which are thus sustained by said brackets in superposed disposition. The trunnion at one end of each roller carries a pinion If, the several pinions being adapted to intermesh with each other, so that the rollers will rotate together.

The several brackets above referred to being movable vertically in the uprights by simply releasing the nuts 9 on their belts f, I provide means for thereupon adjusting said bracket-s individually as well as, to a certain extent, together, which consists of a series of alined superposed bolts u,the threaded portion of each of which engages the threaded orifice in the projection n of one of the blocks Z, each bolt except the lowermost one, which rests upon the corresponding horizontal support I), being sustained by the next subjacent one. My object in pivotally and separably connecting the members of each bracket by means of its bolt q is mainly to render it possible to get at the rollers individually for the purpose of repairs or cleaning, It will be seen that for this purpose it is only necessary to remove the pin of the bracket at one end of the roller upon which the work is to be done in order to separate this roller from the rest, for thereupon it may be swung aroun on the pivot formed by the pin of the bracket at its other end, carrying the member Z of the disconnected bracket with it. It is to be understood, of course, that the stuffing-box v,which affords a coupling in the finishing-machine, in connection with which my invention is shown in the drawings, between the tubular trunnion of each roller and a pipe leading to a suitable source of heat-supply 111, should first be uncoupled before said roller is swung away from the others on its pivot. The pipes are designated by the reference character as. By turning the boltsu after having loosened the nuts g, as above stated, the brackets may be adjusted verticallygso as to arrange the rollers in the desired relative disposition. It will be observed that the said bolts 1b afford means for adjusting the rollers either collectivelyorindividually,according to whether the lowermost bolt alone or the individual bolts are manipulated.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. Abearing-bracket consisting of two members, the one of which is bifurcated and receives one end of the other, and a pin penetrating the engaging ends of said members and'separably securing them together, one of said members constituting the bearing member and the other constituting the supporting member, substantially as described.

2. The combination, Wit-h a frame having slotted uprights, and with revoluble parts, of bifurcated supporting members adjustably mounted in said slotted uprights, other members projecting at one of their ends into the bifurcated ends of said first-named members, and means for separably securing said members together, said revoluble parts beingjournaled in said last-named members, substantially as described.

3. The combination, with a frame including uprights,and with revoluble parts,of pairs of bearing-brackets adj ustably secured in said uprights, said pairs of brackets being disposed the one above the other, and threadeddevices resting one upon the other and screwed into said bearing-brackets,said revoluble parts being journaled in the respective pairs of bearingbrackets, substantially as described.

4. The combination, with a revoluble part, of a pair of bearing-brackets therefor, each consisting of two members, of which one is the bearing member, and a pin pivotall'y and I separably connecting said members, substantially as described. I

5. The combination, with a frame, of a plurality of superposed parts adapted to be sustained at their ends, superposed bearingbrackets for said revoluble parts each being movable vertically in said frame, and alined and superposed adjusting devices supported the one upon the other and each having a threaded engagement with abearing-bracket, substantially as described.

6. The combination, with a frame, of a plurality of superposed parts adapted to be sustained at their ends, superposed bearingbrackets for said parts each being movable vertically in said frame, alined and superposed adjusting devices supported the one upon the other and each having a threaded engagement with a bearing-bracket, and means for securing each bearing-bracket to said upright, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 2d day of May, 1900.

JOSEPH WHITE.

' Witnesses:

JOHN W. STEWARD, ALFRED GARTNER. 

